Distributive Property

West Virginia Standards. The distributive property offers a choice in multiplication of two ways to treat the addends in the equation. We are multiplying a sum by a factor which results in the same product as multiplying each addend by the factor and then adding the products.

The resources above correspond to the standards listed below:

West Virginia Standards

WV.M.S.6.1.Number and Operations: Through communication, representation, reasoning and proof, problem solving, and making connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will demonstrate understanding of numbers, ways of representing numbers, and relationships among numbers and number systems, demonstrate meanings of operations and how they relate to one another, and compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.

M.O.6.1.5.Students will apply the distributive, commutative, associative and identity properties to numeric expressions and use to prove equivalency.